QI-TO-1

Queensland - Interim period: 1901-1917.
Ordinary rate transmission form QI-TO-1.

General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	No form number. Has FORWARDED FORM in heading. New Interim period heading.
Message area:	50 boxes in ten rows numbered at the left.
Reverse side:	Blank.
Colours (text & form):	Black on white paper (glossy on both sides).
Size of form overall:	169 × 212 mm.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

has usual Electric Telegraph, Wueensland heading from the Colonial period but now below COMMONEALTH of AUSTRALIA and FORWARDED FORM;
no schedule number;
has a small box in the top right corner for the "Stamps to be Affixed ...";
the date starts "190_";

Provenance: Dave Elsmore.

QI-TO-1:

Copy of a message sent to Charters Towers.

Characteristics:

has one line of vertical text at the left concerning the cost of obtaining a receipt for the cost of the transmitted message;
three lines for the address of which one is indented and the last extends across the form.

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
TO-1	No form number.		RRRR